An entrepreneur is turning a nuclear bunker into what could be Europe's largest legal marijuana farm

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January 5, 2018 5:02 PM

A nuclear bunker in Germany will be the most unique medical marijuana grow-operation across the globe.

A nuclear bunker in Germany is becoming a massive marijuana farm.
The facility was intended as a launch site for nuclear weapons during the Cold War, though it was never used for such purposes.
Germany is home to Europe's largest medical marijuana market.

In the quiet countryside of southern Germany, Christoph Rossner is transforming a former nuclear bunker into what could be Europe's largest medical marijuana grow-operation.

The 47-year-old entrepreneur says that because of Germany's tight restrictions on growing, he looked for a site that would offer ample security. "This place is perfect for us," Rossner said.

In the US, fortified shelters built to withstand catastrophic events from viral epidemic to nuclear war seem to be experiencing a wave of interest in general. Architects are turning abandoned 20th century bunkers into farms, nightclubs, and apartments, while some developers are building luxury underground shelters where the 1% can live out doomsday.

But Rossner has something else in mind for the Memmingen military base, where from 1956 to 2003, the

Rossner comes to the legal marijuana industry from the illicit market. In the late '90s, the budding entrepreneur set up an "illegal cannabis pharmacy," where he grew and sold the drug to his client base, which included people suffering from cancer, Crohn's and arthritis. For his service, he wound up spending five months in prison and four months in therapy.

"It was not hard for me to go to jail, for all those people," Rossner told Business Insider. "I know in my heart that I am on the right side."

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